by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 26, 2006 | Book Reviews
from my blog The philosophy of the nineteenth-century sensualists and positivists–particularly Comte, Hobbes, and Mill–assaulted God and science with the same club. Thus, in deconstructing the premises of this philosophical strain, Robert L. Dabney upheld...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Book Reviews
From my blog Once more, quotations are taken from Robert L. Dabney: The Sensualistic Philosophy, Naphtali Press, 2003. Robert L. Dabney’s philosophical observations of science are not stale; on the contrary, his observations are still crisp and refreshingly...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Book Reviews
From my blog Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was the great white hope of atheists determined to commandeer rationality. Her philosophy, “Objectivism,” was unique in its separation from the sensualists and its rejection of relativism. She did, nevertheless, hold...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Oct 12, 2006 | Book Reviews
From my blog Mid-nineteenth-century evolution theory was a fission bomb forever sundering two ways of understanding life: Either we are related through Adam and unrelated to cantaloupe; or, we are related through protoplasm to both. Dabney’s chapter,...
by Mrs. B and The Cat | Sep 27, 2006 | Book Reviews
I posted this to my blog, Board Housewife & The Cat this morning. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Pr 3:5 As I begin to read about the history of ideas, two things happen: First, the more I am called to repent my...
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